in straitened circumstances

1. 1.

   not having enough money to pay for necessities

   Synonymshard upimpecuniouspennilesspenuriouspinched

   Similarpoor

Questions about in straitened circumstances

What does in straitened circumstances mean?

in straitened circumstances means "not having enough money to pay for necessities".

What is another word for in straitened circumstances?

Close synonyms include hard up, impecunious, penniless, penurious, pinched. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is in straitened circumstances a common word?

in straitened circumstances is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.